Top Women In Engineering List Includes Douglas Board Chair Jones

DOUGLASVILLE, GA — The chair of Douglas County’s board of commissioners has been named by a respected state engineering magazine to a list of top female leaders.

Romona Jackson Jones is one of this year’s 100 Most Influential Women in Georgia Engineering, announced late in April by Engineering Georgia magazine. The issue was distributed digitally in late April, with physical copies released earlier this month.

“Engineers play an integral part in the collaborative process of creating the built environment, but it takes many other professions, such as architects, contractors, surveyors, attorneys, urban planners, and government leaders to bring an idea from plan to reality,” editor Brett Hillesheim wrote in introducing the group.

Jones is the first Black commission chair of Douglas County. Before she was elected, she worked in the healthcare industry for 40 years. Jones serves on the Atlanta Regional Commission as board officer secretary/chairman of ethics, co-chair of the senior and aging committee, and a member of the air quality board. Her daughter Shannon Nicole Jones is an educator in the Douglas County school system.

Jones was among a “flood of hundreds of amazing women who were nominated to the list this year,” wrote Michael L. Sullivan, Engineering Georgia publisher. “The selection committee really had their work cut out for them.”

Engineering Georgia is the official statewide magazine of Georgia’s civil engineering industry.

See the list of 100 Most Influential Women in Georgia Engineering in the March/April 2022 issue of Engineering Georgia magazine.